A consortium of companies that includes Microsoft, Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Research In Motion and Sony has purchased Nortel's patent assets in an auction for $4.5 billion in cash, Nortel announced Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
The simple truth is that IT services executives have to constantly be looking ahead two and three years.
- By Mike Harvath
- July 01, 2011
On the heels of Monday's licensing agreement with General Dynamics Itronix, Microsoft has inked two more intellectual property (IP) licensing deals relating to use of the Android mobile OS.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
There are three reasons why Windows Phone "Mango" will finally move the needle for Microsoft in the smartphone market.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) is now available for download by Microsoft partners with silver and gold competencies in desktop and virtualization specialties.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 01, 2011
With effort, a little prodding and help from peers, Jamison West took a "one-man band" to a 30-person firm. His company, JWCS, acquired two other Seattle companies in the last year and relaunched July 1 as Arterian.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
The company's Hybrid Cloud Platform lets companies keep their data on-premises while leaving the managing to a provider. Everyone benefits.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 01, 2011
Citing "cool" factor, partners see the next OS interface as unifying Microsoft's platforms. Concerns surround how the touch orientation will translate to the desktop, and whether thorny OEM and development issues find quick resolutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2011
Amazon Web Services announced a new pricing plan today for all its cloud services, including its CloudFront content delivery network.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: In a major change from BPOS, 20 hosters with value-added services will handle their own customer billing for Office 365. VARs and MSPs must still go through Microsoft in the Partner of Record model.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 30, 2011
Microsoft released the beta of "Mango," the next version of the company's mobile OS, to Windows Phone 7 developers on Wednesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 29, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: (Previously "25 Things Partners Should Know About Office 365.") Microsoft just launched the much-anticipated successor to BPOS. Here's what every partner needs to know.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 29, 2011
Microsoft's Office 365 is now officially available in 40 markets globally, the company announced today at a launch event in New York.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- June 28, 2011
Amid the buzz over Office 365's launch, Microsoft also released the first service packs (SP1) for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 28, 2011
Microsoft has scored another legal win against the Linux-based Android mobile OS, announcing on Monday that it has entered a deal with General Dynamics Itronix.
- By Kurt Mackie
- June 27, 2011